Service members returning home from Confederate POW camps scrambled for their lives after the Sultana exploded.

IRWIN, Pa. — A gun salute and the sound of taps filled the air at the Union Cemetery in Irwin just after noon on Monday to honor John Ernest Weigel. “It’s crazy just to have so many people even like ...

John E. Wiegel was the last Union veteran from the Civil War to be laid to rest in Westmoreland County. While no one who was gathered at Irwin Union Cemetery on Memorial Day ever met Private John E.

A Union City farmer, leaving for the Civil War, stuck a pitchfork into a tree in 1862. He told his family not to remove the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Archaeologists were on site of a historical dig on Monday to locate the grave of a lost Civil War infantry. A company of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Calvary ...

More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west ...

PROVIDENCE − Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. On Saturday, June 21, they will be honored as the community marks Juneteenth. "I think it's ...